Program for the International Syriac Language Project (ISLP)

Tuesday, 9 August 2022

609-40
Room KOL-G-222

Chair: Richard A. Taylor, Dallas Theological Seminary

14.30-15.00

Mathias Coeckelbergs (Bruxelles/Leuven), Willem van Peursen (Amsterdam)
Syriac Lexicography between Information Science and Linguistics

15.00-15.30

Michael Sokoloff (Ramat Gan, Israel)
New Developments in Christian Palestinian Aramaic

15.30-16.00

James C. Wolfe (Princeton), Fatima Zohra Boumhaout (Princeton)

Syriac Terms for Roman Institutions: An Exercise in Syriac Lexicography and the Digital Humanities

16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.00

Jerome Lund (Norway)

Peshitta Deuteronomy as a Reader-oriented Translation

17.00-17.30

Logan Copley (Amsterdam)

The Peshitta’s Rendering of the Numeruswechsel in Deuteronomy

17.30-18.00

Amir Vasheghanifarahani (Tartu, Estonia)

Poetology of the Peshitta Psalm 146: A Poetical Example of Translation

Thursday, 11 August 2022

611-40
Room KOL-G-220

Chair: Richard A. Taylor, Dallas Theological Seminary

14.30-15.00

David J.A. Clines (Sheffield)

Defining Definitions: A Lexicographical Taxonomy

15.00-15.30

Mats Eskhult (Uppsala)

Time and Tense in Biblical Hebrew Narration, Description, Admonition, and Prediction

15.30-16.00

Carolyn Alsen (Melbourne)

Some Linguistic and Social Observations on Two Syriac Inscriptions from St Paul’s Monastery

16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.00

Daniel King (Cardiff)

The Syriac Philosophical Lexicon: An Example of Its Development

17.00-17.30

James Nathan Ford (Bar-Ilan)

Lexical Peculiarities of the Syriac Magic Bowls

17.30-18.00

Shlomi Efrati (Leuven)

Bulls and Filth: New Readings in the Aramaic Levi Document